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Tentative Plans

 1^st Trimester

Short Stories:

The Most Dangerous Game (irony, plot diagramming, protagonist/ antagonist )
The Lady, or the Tiger? (irony and tone, plot diagramming)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (irony and author’s style, static/dynamic characters)
The Necklace (author’s language and attitude)
The Cask of Amontillado (tone and mood & author’s style, irony)
The Gift of the Magi (irony, theme, allusion)

2^nd Trimester

Nonfiction:

My Mother, Rachel West  ( autobiography as author’s style, genre differentiation)
Fragments of Autobiography (compare this style with previous story, tone, imagery)

Epic Poem:

The Odyssey (author’s style, direct/indirect characterization, foreshadowing, genre differentiation: the epic, static/dynamic characters)

Nonfiction:

Life on the Mississippi (tone, imagery, setting, analogy)

Novel:

Tom Sawyer ( satire and style, direct/indirect characterization, archaic language, colloquialism, static/dynamic characters, irony, third person omniscient/limited, foreshadowing, foil, motif, theme, satire)

3^rd Trimester

 Novel:

Tom Sawyer (continued)

Drama and Introduction to Shakespeare:

Romeo and Juliet ( irony and author’s style, genre differentiation: comedy/tragedy, personification, introduction to Shakespearean Language and the sonnet, simile/metaphor, foreshadowing)

Poetry:

Misc. selections (author’s style)